Time Travel - Viaje en el Tiempo
Installation and Film by Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa
2-5.12.2021
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have just landed at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá, it is 4 p.m. and the temperature is 17 degrees Celsius. Please keep your seat belt fastened until the signal light is switched off, please keep your phones in flight mode..."
When I came to Finland in 2013, I left an aquarium at my home in Colombia. Since then I have been cutting and collecting my hair occasionally. Over the years of my stay in Finland, the aquarium has been following me in spirit, it has been navigating in my life, dreams, and subconsciousness. I started to notice my hair had a connection to the fish I had in Colombia.
In this piece, I explore the emotions of longing and the desire for reviving past life.
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Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa (b. 1992) is a Colombian visual artist based in Helsinki that mainly works with film, installations, and time-based arts. Her work reflects and rises themes connected to time changing, migration, and transnational objects. When she departed from her home country Colombia to Finland, she left an aquarium at home. Since then, Paola has experimented and included it in her art as a tool for visual and experience encountering. Her performance Time Travel has been shown in cities like Madrid, Helsinki and Bogotá.
She has a BA degree in Visual Arts that she completed in Bogota, Colombia. During this degree, she did exchange studies in the Film and Television Department of Aalto University, where she strengthened her knowledge and skills on filmmaking and scenography. Later on, she applied to study her second bachelor degree and Master ́s at Kuvataideakatemia. In 2019 she graduated from her BA and currently, she is finishing her Master's program in “Time and Space Arts”.
Paola is one of the Co-Founders of the artist film collective Kino Club Helsinki that has been running since 2017.
www.paolafernanda.com
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have just landed at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá, it is 4 p.m. and the temperature is 17 degrees Celsius. Please keep your seat belt fastened until the signal light is switched off, please keep your phones in flight mode..."
When I came to Finland in 2013, I left an aquarium at my home in Colombia. Since then I have been cutting and collecting my hair occasionally. Over the years of my stay in Finland, the aquarium has been following me in spirit, it has been navigating in my life, dreams, and subconsciousness. I started to notice my hair had a connection to the fish I had in Colombia.
In this piece, I explore the emotions of longing and the desire for reviving past life.
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Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa (b. 1992) is a Colombian visual artist based in Helsinki that mainly works with film, installations, and time-based arts. Her work reflects and rises themes connected to time changing, migration, and transnational objects. When she departed from her home country Colombia to Finland, she left an aquarium at home. Since then, Paola has experimented and included it in her art as a tool for visual and experience encountering. Her performance Time Travel has been shown in cities like Madrid, Helsinki and Bogotá.
She has a BA degree in Visual Arts that she completed in Bogota, Colombia. During this degree, she did exchange studies in the Film and Television Department of Aalto University, where she strengthened her knowledge and skills on filmmaking and scenography. Later on, she applied to study her second bachelor degree and Master ́s at Kuvataideakatemia. In 2019 she graduated from her BA and currently, she is finishing her Master's program in “Time and Space Arts”.
Paola is one of the Co-Founders of the artist film collective Kino Club Helsinki that has been running since 2017.
www.paolafernanda.com
